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Cleveland Federation and Council
To Mer • e Into One Organization
Unity Effected Alter Three
Dirptet n . le !,!:riesit!F :-t ew,h , e jlitto Years of Community Study
Israel Accepts 122,770
GENEVA—In the past four years, the state of Israel has
accepted 122,770 displaced persons who were under the jurisdic-
tion of the International Refugee Organiation, IRO announced
in a report published here Tuesday. The resettlement report was
based on statistics covering the period from July, 1947, through
June, 1951.
Approve Loan to Immigrant Villages
JERUSALEM—The Parliamentary Finance Committee Monday
night approved a measure providing for a loan of 1,000,000 pounds
($2,800,000) to the Jewish Agency for work it is doing in the immigrant
Villages.
Afterwards, the chairman of the committee questioned the le-
gality of a new popular housing program begun Monday by the gov-
ernment. David Horowitz, director general of the Finance Ministry,
under questioning agreed that a special law would be needed for the
project to continue. The program which will cost approximately 10,000,-
000 pounds will provide '48,000 housing units in various parts of the
country.
UN Refugee Director Submits Report
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y„ (JTA)—The United Nations first High
Commissioner for Refugees, Dr. G. J. van Heuven Goedhart of the
NetherlandS, turned in his first report to the UN Economic and SoCial
Council. Covering the five months since he took office in January, a
period devoted chiefly to "internal organization and administration"
and to making contacts in receiving countries, the report was mainly
a preliminary survey of the task facing the new office, which is to
take over the refugee problem from the International Refugee Or-.
ganization.
As his first recommendation, Dr. van Heuven Goedhart requested
a budget to. establish 11 "small but efficient" field offices in receiving
countries, in addition to his headquarters in Geneva.
Intermarriage Increasing in Montreal
MONTREAL, (JTA)—Intermarriage among Jews in Canada has
shown a steady rise in the last 25 years, it is indicated in statistics
released here by the Research Department of the Canadian Jewish -
Congress. The statistics were compiled by the bureau in a survey
covering the period of 1926-48.
The number of intermarriages among Jewish women was highest
in 1946 when it totalled 96. The term "intermarriage" was used to
describe all marriages in which one of the parties claims to be of the
Jewish religion, while the other party claims to belong to any non-
Jewish religion, bureau officials noted.
By Jewish News Special Correspondent
CLEVELAND, 0.—Final steps for the coordination of the local Jewish Welfare
Federation and Jewish Community Council into a single community organization to
be known as the Jewish Welfare Federation and Council were taken here on July
10, when the Delegate Assembly of the Council voted 82 to 40 in favor of the adop-
tion of the report of a joint committee fr om both groups proposing such action.
The board of trustees of the Federation already had adopted the report. The
only action now to be taken is approval of the plan by the Federation membership
at a meeting scheduled for September.
Leaders who in past years opposed such a step now were among the staunchest
supporters of the unity move. Ezra Shapiro, for example, who previously spoke for
the Zionist groups in favor of the domination of the Council, was among the back-
ers of the report. The Labor Zionist Organ ization supported the move. Only the orth-
odox element stood aside in oppdsition to the merger, but it was in the minority, the
report having received better than the required two-thirds majority.
The action of the Cleveland organiz ations is expected to have a salutary
effect upon other communities, especially Detroit, where similar negotiations for
unity between Federation and Council h ave been carried on by spokesmen for
both groups for a number of years.
The negotiations between the Cleveland Federation and Council have been in
progress since 1948 when a joint committee was set up to study the community
structure- and to recommend changes. The plan, product of years of careful study
and conscientious negotiations, provides t he following:
(1) The central organization shall be known as the Jewish Welfare Federation and
Council.
(2) The Jewish Welfare Federation and Council shall perform the functions and have
the powers now performed and exercised respectively by the Federation and the Council.
(3) At the inception of the new organization, all standing committees of the Federa-
tion and of the Council will continue on their present basis, subject to change from time
to time by the Board of Trustees through appropriate action. All standing committees of
the Council, other than those which are part of the Community Relations Department,
shall be grouped together as subcommittees of a new Internal Relations Committee. The
Board of Trusteesis to be given the right, through constitutional provision, to add to its
membership the chairmen of not more than six standing committees, if they are not other-
wise on the Board. The initial by-laws of the Jewish Welfare Federation and Council shall
provide for the following six committees, and _that their chairmen shall serve on the
Board of Trustees as long as these committees continue in existence:
Budget Committee, Community Relations Committee, Internal Relations Committee,
Public Relations Committee, Social Agency Committee, Welfare Fund Committee.
(4) The membership of the Jewish Welfare Federation and Council shall consist of all
Jewish persons who shall contribute at least $5.00 per year to the Organization or to any
common fund from which the Jewish Welfare Federation and Council receives support
for its beneficiary institutions, and such persons shall be members of the Jewish Welfare
Federation and Council during the fiscal year following which such contributions -shall
be paid.
(5) There shall be a Board of Trustees composed of members as follows:
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Israel Grows Up
hi First 3 Years
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Qsaissisei
The world's youngest democracy
is hard at work building new in-
dustries to provide modern tools
and jobs for newcomers to the
Jewish state. The vast gains in
Israel's "growing-up" process are
shown in this photographic report
just arrived from the Jewish - state:
A new American - established
1.
watch factory at Ramat Gan pro-
duces 34,000 alarm clocks annually;
2. Israel is producing modern re-
frigerators. 3. Ramat Gan alarm
clock factory. 4. Immigrants to
Israel from Shanghai invested
capital to open a modern workshop
in Jaffa to manufacture auto spare
parts. 5. Radios, for local market
and for export manufaCtured by a
factory set up in Israel by a group
of French investors. 6. An Israeli
mechanic Checks over new Kaiser--
.
Frazer model before it rolls off the
assembly iine at the Haifa plant,
Fibrst shipments of -the cars are al-
ready enroute to Finland as part of
Israel's growing export trade.